Families. A remaining spot to be filled, that of secretary of state. Over the weekend we learn add few more names on on that list of potentials including miami rodney, general pennsylvania petraeus and jon huntsman. There are others. And with us, jessica a couple weeks ago dr. Carson been seem to be want to be part of the cabinet. What changed . Reporter wolf, you know, it was just a couple weeks ago a close aide to dr. Carson said, dr. Ben carson was not, in fact, interested in leading a federal agency. When his name was mentioned for health and human services. At the time, because dr. Carson didnt have experience leading a federal agency and didnt believe that was his strength. Then you go back to two weeks ago, and donald trump tweeted he was, in fact, considering dr. Carson for hud secretary. And then it was just on wednesday, last week, that dr. Carson put on his Facebook Page that an announcement was imminent. The question is, what changed here . Youll remember to back in decembe
now. how close is that situation to being resolved? in other words, isis being kicked out? not eminent. i think it s going to be weeks if not my guess is, a couple months, at least. this is really tough fighting. it is block by block. isis has had years to dig in, tunnels, ieds, all sorts of very difficult circumstances, plus they re using civilians as human shields. so it takes time, and i would say we re probably looking at another couple months before mosul is cleared. representative mac thornbury of text, chairman fts house armed services committee. mr. chairman, thank you very much. you re welcome, sir. coming up, investigators say a gunman stormed a washington, d.c. area pizzeria after a fake news story surfaced online, and was peddled, actually, by the son of donald trump s new national security adviser.
the network that monitors her health. the secure cloud services that store her genetic data the servers and software on a mission to find the perfect match. and the mom who gets to hear her daughter s heart beat once again. we re helping organizations transform the way they work so they can transform the lives of the people they serve. mac thornberry. with us now, chairman of the house armed services committee, mac thornberry. also with us chief white house correspondent from politico, mike allen. mr. chairman, thank you so much for being with us. let s talk about the defense
top? keep that to yourself buddy. what about if somebody just takes a real swing. thanks so much, kasie. chuck, thank you, as well. really appreciate you being here. and what do you have planned? we have rand paul. oh, my gosh. talk a little bit about iraq. all right. coming up next the chairman of the house armed services committee mac thornbury will be here to join the conversation. we ll be asking him about isis and the middle east and much more.
i remember sitting down there and just looking to everybody playing. i just wished i could play here, right here, and not have to go. it was like a city of its own. it was a whole little town. you had everything going on. it was home. the king of the blues, b.b. king, has died. raised in the mississippi delta. it attracted fans of all musical genres. he was nope for his signature guitar that he rescued when the dance hall burned down legend has it started by two men fighting over a woman and her name of course lucille. he played some 330 shows a year for the better part of four decades. and he collaborated with legends from eric clapton to u2. king was abducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 1987 he received the presidential medal of dream from george w. bush and medical officials say he died of complications from dementia. b.b. king was 89 years old. and gene, i was saying to you, one year i went out to the grammys and met a lot of punks but he was such a great m